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Sunday, May 9, 2010

Something new!




FIRST LIGHT
for Northern Galactic members telescope 


My first target was a M 104, the "Sombrero galaxy"

Note, image is kind of "preview", since all the calibration files are not yet taken.


I have been a member of Northern Galactic astronomical  group for some time now. Recently  they have opened up a possibility for members  to remote operate a great astronomical instrument in Australia.



This has been a wonderful opportunity for me to use a "never-ever-have-enough-money-for-it" instrument and secondly this is my first ever possibility to shoot from a dark location!

Technical details for M104 image:
Instrument information in an image.
Exposures
25x300s for the Luminance and 4x300s / RGB-channel
Only Dark frame calibrated, since Flats are not ready yet.


For me, it's very confusing to shoot from the Southern hemisphere, since the sky is rotating to wrong direction! Targets, and Sun, rice from West and go down to East.  Beside that, constellations are new to me.
I'm all thrilled!

Special thanks to Bert Candusio for making this possible for me!





Monday, May 3, 2010

Saturn as a 3D-stereo pair




Parallel vision


Cross vision

Other 3D-formats can be found here:
http://astroanarchy.zenfolio.com/f359296072

NOTE! This is a personal vision about forms and shapes, based on some known facts and an artistic impression.
Viewing instructions can be found from a Right hand side menu.


Saturn as an anaglyph 3D


Red/Cyan 3D glasses required for viewing.
If you have a Red and Green filters, you can use them! Red goes to Left eye.



Saturn 3D-anaglyph Red/Cyan


Original 2D-image, imaged back to 2006 with the webcam and the Meade lx200 GPS 12" @ f33

3D-images are made by creating artificial parallax to an image. The volumetric models are based on some known scientific facts and an artistic impression.


Sunday, May 2, 2010

Veil nebula, Eastern part, fly trough movie





A fly trough movie of the Veil nebula.
Movie is made by dividing objects at separate layers and then the resulting 3D-model is animated to a movie file.

Original 2D-image and data: